This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... Reporter. But did we create a government of it? Author. Yes. Reporter. How did we create a government of it? Author. By creating corporations to govern it. But as with the first government that we created of our political action, having created it from necessity and not from knowledge, we did not know ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... Reporter. But did we create a government of it? Author. Yes. Reporter. How did we create a government of it? Author. By creating corporations to govern it. But as with the first government that we created of our political action, having created it from necessity and not from knowledge, we did not know where the power of it came from, and our consciousness of it associated itself in our minds with the directors of it, and we allowed them to exercise it as they pleased, as we allowed our king to exercise the power of the first government that we created of our political action as he pleased. But our new idea continued to develop, and our consciousness of the power of the government that we created of our industrial action separated itself from the directors of it, and associated itself with the new government that we have created from it of our political action, and gave us consciousness that the power of it came from us, and we began to pass laws to direct the exercise of it, and take steps to enforce them. And finally our new idea so far developed that the consciousness that it gave us of the power of the government that we have created of our industrial action associated itself in our minds directly with it, and gave us consciousness that the power of our industrial action is not to be directed by the new government that we have created of our political action, but by a new government that we are to create of our industrial action, and this consciousness took the form of The Inter-State Commerce Commission, and The Department of Commerce and Labor. And this brings us to where we now are. And before going further it will be necessary for me to speak of the development of our new idea of the unity of the action of the universe in my own...
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